Contracultura : alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil / Christopher Dunn.
"... Exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardlin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | "... Exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469630014 146963001X 9781469628516 1469628511 |